SQL Contract Job Trends in Bristol

SQL (Structured Query Language)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 17 25
Rank change year-on-year -9 +8 -10
Contract jobs citing SQL 65 46 61
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 5.74% 8.88% 5.85%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.06% 28.05% 26.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 33 39
10th Percentile £311 £354 £335
25th Percentile £413 £375 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £551 £578
90th Percentile £568 £674 £640
South West median daily rate £475 £510 £538
% change year-on-year -6.86% -5.12% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - £25.36 -
25th Percentile - £25.50 £48.75
Median hourly rate - £27.13 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - -48.33% -10.64%
75th Percentile - £46.75 £56.25
90th Percentile - £57.40 -
South West median hourly rate £74.68 £27.13 £33.32
% change year-on-year +175.32% -18.59% -42.05%

All Programming Languages
Bristol

SQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 324 164 230
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 28.60% 31.66% 22.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 88 129
10th Percentile £325 £325 £300
25th Percentile £405 £363 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £550
90th Percentile £590 £670 £638
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 152 43 57
10th Percentile £60.00 £61.25 £52.50
25th Percentile £64.38 £62.25 £56.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -0.76%
75th Percentile - £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £68.75 £70.50
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £65.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year -1.14% +5.20% -3.85%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SQL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

SQL job vacancy trend in Bristol

SQL
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SQL

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Bristol over the 6 months to 28 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Bristol

SQL
Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SQL

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (6.15%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (4.62%) Apache
2 3 (4.62%) Apache Spark
3 2 (3.08%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (1.54%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (4.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.54%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (9.23%) NEC Housing
2 2 (3.08%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 16 (24.62%) Azure
1 16 (24.62%) Power Platform
2 13 (20.00%) GCP
3 10 (15.38%) AWS
4 8 (12.31%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (9.23%) Snowflake
6 4 (6.15%) GitHub
6 4 (6.15%) Microsoft Copilot
6 4 (6.15%) SaaS
7 3 (4.62%) OpenShift
8 2 (3.08%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (3.08%) Amazon S3
8 2 (3.08%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (3.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (3.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 1 (1.54%) Cloud Composer
9 1 (1.54%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.54%) PowerApps
9 1 (1.54%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.69%) 5G
1 5 (7.69%) Radio Access Network
2 4 (6.15%) 4G
3 3 (4.62%) 2G
4 2 (3.08%) 3GPP
4 2 (3.08%) 5G NR
4 2 (3.08%) Ethernet
4 2 (3.08%) LTE
4 2 (3.08%) Microwave Backhaul
4 2 (3.08%) MPLS
4 2 (3.08%) VoLTE
4 2 (3.08%) Wireshark
5 1 (1.54%) DNS
5 1 (1.54%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (23.08%) Power BI
2 8 (12.31%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (10.77%) BigQuery
4 5 (7.69%) Big Data
4 5 (7.69%) Delta Lake
4 5 (7.69%) Star Schema
5 4 (6.15%) SQL Server
5 4 (6.15%) Tableau
6 3 (4.62%) Metadata
7 2 (3.08%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (3.08%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (3.08%) Neo4j
7 2 (3.08%) Oracle ODI
7 2 (3.08%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (3.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.54%) Looker
8 1 (1.54%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (1.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (9.23%) Jenkins
2 4 (6.15%) Git
3 2 (3.08%) DBeaver
4 1 (1.54%) GitLab
4 1 (1.54%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (1.54%) SoapUI
4 1 (1.54%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 18 (27.69%) Finance
2 16 (24.62%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (15.38%) Social Skills
4 9 (13.85%) Local Government
5 4 (6.15%) Banking
6 3 (4.62%) Telecoms
7 2 (3.08%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.08%) Publishing
8 1 (1.54%) Billing
8 1 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.54%) Legal
Job Titles
1 17 (26.15%) Senior
2 14 (21.54%) Data Engineer
3 11 (16.92%) Analyst
4 9 (13.85%) Developer
5 7 (10.77%) Applications Support
5 7 (10.77%) Support Officer
6 6 (9.23%) Senior Applications Support
7 5 (7.69%) Application Security Analyst
7 5 (7.69%) Security Analyst
7 5 (7.69%) SQL Analyst
8 4 (6.15%) Analytics Manager
8 4 (6.15%) Azure Data Engineer
8 4 (6.15%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (6.15%) Business Intelligence Manager
8 4 (6.15%) Data Migration Engineer
8 4 (6.15%) Java Developer
8 4 (6.15%) Migration Engineer
8 4 (6.15%) Senior Analytics Manager
8 4 (6.15%) Senior Manager
9 3 (4.62%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.15%) REST
2 3 (4.62%) Kafka
3 2 (3.08%) JAX-RS
3 2 (3.08%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 2 (3.08%) Pandas
3 2 (3.08%) PySpark
3 2 (3.08%) Spring
3 2 (3.08%) Spring Boot
3 2 (3.08%) Web Services
4 1 (1.54%) GraphQL
4 1 (1.54%) JPA
4 1 (1.54%) Next.js
4 1 (1.54%) OAuth
4 1 (1.54%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.54%) Playwright
4 1 (1.54%) React
4 1 (1.54%) RESTful
4 1 (1.54%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.77%) Legacy Systems
1 7 (10.77%) Management Information System
2 5 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 5 (7.69%) Mobile App
3 3 (4.62%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.08%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.08%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (3.08%) IoT
4 2 (3.08%) NB-IoT
4 2 (3.08%) Replication
5 1 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.54%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.54%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.08%) Linux
2 1 (1.54%) Windows
2 1 (1.54%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.54%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (36.92%) Analytics
2 20 (30.77%) Business Intelligence
3 16 (24.62%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (23.08%) Agile
5 14 (21.54%) ETL
6 13 (20.00%) Data Modelling
7 12 (18.46%) Data Engineering
8 11 (16.92%) Data Science
8 11 (16.92%) DevOps
9 10 (15.38%) AI
9 10 (15.38%) Application Security
9 10 (15.38%) CI/CD
9 10 (15.38%) Data Pipeline
9 10 (15.38%) Data Security
10 8 (12.31%) Validation
11 7 (10.77%) Actionable Insight
11 7 (10.77%) Change Management
11 7 (10.77%) Customer Service
11 7 (10.77%) Data Protection
11 7 (10.77%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 26 (40.00%) Python
2 6 (9.23%) Java
3 3 (4.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (3.08%) C
4 2 (3.08%) Go
4 2 (3.08%) R
4 2 (3.08%) Shell Script
4 2 (3.08%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.54%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.54%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.54%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.54%) Scala
5 1 (1.54%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (12.31%) Security Cleared
2 7 (10.77%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.15%) Degree
4 2 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.54%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (29.23%) Data Quality
2 12 (18.46%) GDPR
3 2 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.54%) PERC
4 1 (1.54%) QA
System Software
1 5 (7.69%) Docker
2 1 (1.54%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (10.77%) Terraform
2 5 (7.69%) Kubernetes
3 3 (4.62%) Ansible
3 3 (4.62%) Grafana
3 3 (4.62%) Prometheus
4 2 (3.08%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 10 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 9 (13.85%) Databricks
3 8 (12.31%) Google
4 6 (9.23%) NEC
5 3 (4.62%) Oracle
6 2 (3.08%) BMC
6 2 (3.08%) Remedy
7 1 (1.54%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.54%) Amplitude
7 1 (1.54%) Facebook
7 1 (1.54%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.54%) SAP